Biggest-ever Al Maktoum airport tender released
AWARDING SCHEDULED FOR EARLY NEXT YEAR AND MORE TO COME, SHAIKH AHMAD SAYS
The substructure package tender for Dubai’s second airport has been put into the market by Dubai Aviation Engineering Projects.
This will form the “biggest” single value contract issued to date for the Al Maktoum International Airport, the world’s largest such facility in the making.
“An unprecedented scale... maybe the biggest ever released in its category,” said Shaikh Ahmad Bin Saeed Al Maktoum, Chairman of Dubai Aviation City Corporation and Dubai Aviation Sector Board, in a statement. “We are targeting an award by early next year. More is yet to come and everyone is looking forward to a busy 2019.”
The issued package consists of over 1.7 million square metres of connected basement footprint to house the future services of the airport, such as people mover tunnels, baggage handling systems, a ground services road network and other technical and support facilities.
It will also include the foundations, basement walls, columns, basement slabs and top slabs for the first 2.7-km long concourse, the West Terminal building, short-term car park and staff car park, with a depth exceeding 18 metres underground and around 5.5 million cubic metres of concrete to be poured.
The site is already quite active, with construction having started in July 2016. More than 90 per cent of the site grading and logistics packages are underway.